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  1. Re:Sledgehammer approach. on New Destructive Malware Intentionally Bricks IoT Devices (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    That depends on where you are in the world.

    Here in Australia a full refund of the purchase price is codified in law. Retailers will pick better suppliers as it costs them to refund.

  2. Re:but you arent a traditional CA on Over 14K 'Let's Encrypt' SSL Certificates Issued To PayPal Phishing Sites (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    You can get the equivalent of key pinning using DNSSEC and TLSA.

    Now if browsers vendors supported TLSA it would improve security because rogue CA's can't issue a cert for the name that will be accepted.

  3. Re:but you arent a traditional CA on Over 14K 'Let's Encrypt' SSL Certificates Issued To PayPal Phishing Sites (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean to say I can't name a site for finding pals to play with "playpal.com"? It's not LetsEncrypt job to find out what the use of a site is for.

  4. Re: People don't care because ipv4 works for them on SixXS IPv6 Tunnel Provider Is Shutting Down (sixxs.net) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well get a VPN that supports IPv6. You have had 20+ years to plan for this.

  5. Re:People don't care because ipv4 works for them on SixXS IPv6 Tunnel Provider Is Shutting Down (sixxs.net) · · Score: 1

    There are ISP's that do IPv6 only today. IPv4 is a service that runs on top of IPv6 rather than beside it. NAT64/DNS64, 464XLAT, and DS-Light are all examples of IPv4 as a service running on top of a IPv6 only transport.

  6. Re:SixXS's client can tunnel through our office NA on SixXS IPv6 Tunnel Provider Is Shutting Down (sixxs.net) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter how many IPv4 addresses you have. How do you connect to the company that can't get a IPv4 address to address their service but can get IPv6 addresses. How do you reach them without a IPv6 address? This is the state of the world today.

  7. If I order a pizza from Pizza Hut or Dominos here in Australia. Neither Pizza Hut nor Dominos has the legal right to send me any advertising ever. The *only* thing they have a legal right to send me is email related directly to that transaction. They are also not permitted to tick check boxes saying that you request advertising material. They are also not permitted to send SMS messages except as related to the transaction in progress. They are permitted to send me mail that the post office delivers.

    Now if Pizza Hut and Dominos can do that here they can do that everywhere in the world.

  8. Re:lack of foresight on Wyden To Introduce Bill To Prohibit Warrantless Phone Searches At Border (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    The CBP would be laughed out of court if it said "we were searching this phone for copyright infringement" as bring in copyrighted works is not prohibited and people have large personal collections of lots of things on their devices. You need lots more than just the presence of copyrighted works to prove copyright infringement. If the CBP already has suspicions of copyright infringements occurring then looking for particular copyright material makes sense.

    It the difference between bringing in the contents of you library of books (legal) and bringing in multiple copies of the same book for resale when you are not
    the designated distributer (illegal).

    There is however digital stuff that in not permitted to cross US borders, and yes, the CBP has the right to look for this both coming in and leaving the US. That depends on what it is not that it is copyrighted.

  9. Re:What about region-encoding on DVDs? on Valve and Game Publishers Face EU Probe For Geo-Blocking; ASUS Faces Probe For Online Price-Fixing (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would I rip them? Multi-region DVD player are legal here and it is illegal for publisher to disable playing DVD's on such players. Private parallel importation is legal. It the imported goods are over a threshold value you duty on them. Commercial parallel importation is illegal.

  10. But the gasoline basically works in every car in the world regardless of where the car was sold or where the car is registered or where the owner lives. If you want you can buy thousands of litres and import it from anywhere in the world and use it.

  11. Re:What about region-encoding on DVDs? on Valve and Game Publishers Face EU Probe For Geo-Blocking; ASUS Faces Probe For Online Price-Fixing (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually it should make DVD's cheaper for me. The US doesn't have the highest DVD prices by region.

  12. It's about how you use the location data. There is no conflict between the two requirements. EU is banning geoblocking for specific purposes, e.g. setting price points, refusing otherwise legal sales.

  13. Re:It's about time. on Transportation Department Proposes Allowing In-Flight Phone Calls (go.com) · · Score: 1

    I was flying in to SFO and a announcement came over PA saying we were diverting to SJC due to reaching fuel limits. Fog was causing problems at SFO delaying flights landing. There was a rush by half the plane to place calls. A short time late we got a slot at SFO and were told we would be landing there. There was a much smaller rush for the phones by those that had succeeded in making a call the first time.

  14. You have to turn up, get your name marked off the roll, walk over to the booth, submit the ballot paper into the box.

    If you don't walk over to the booth you will be asked to do so. Whether you end up writing anything on the ballot paper is up to you.

    You can pre-poll. You can use a postal vote. If you don't vote you will be asked if you have a valid excuse for not voting. If you don't have a valid excuse you will be fined. If you are marked off multiple times you will also be asked to explain and can be fined if it is determined that you voted multiple times.

    If there are enough irregularities detected that the result could have changed count will be declared invalid and a new election held.

    Recounts are automatic if the margin is below a threshold and can also be called for.

  15. Every time you see a company issue a CVE. That is a software product recall. They are done thousands of times a year worldwide.

  16. The mag stripe says this is a chip card and the terminal will request that you use the chip reader.

    You need to modify the data when cloning.

    The next step will be to not accept swipes once the pos terminals are upgraded.

  17. Re:Retailers are holding us in the stone age on Judge Allows Small Businesses To Sue Credit Card Giants For Forcing Them To Adopt Chip Readers (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know about you, but I hate it when I'm forced to change credit card numbers due to fraud being detected on the old number.

    Getting to the state where cards can't be skimmed is a good thing for consumers. It should also reduce the costs of goods marginally where there are only card present sales as the merchant fees should be reduced.

    You can't get to a state where cards can't be skimmed until all the point of sale equipment has been upgraded to support chips. This takes time and the US is at the end of the line in doing this.

  18. And the next step is to just stop supporting swipe only transactions like some countries have already done.

  19. The moved it to from a something that can be cloned to something that can't be cloned.

    It would be better if they moved it to something that can't be cloned + something you know.

  20. So you remembered being annoyed. You most probably also thought "wouldn't it be nice if it could reset it self automatically". That makes the concept obvious. So obvious that even some not skilled in the arts could think of it. Now how you achieve that may or not be obvious.

    There is also the "will it being me enough extra sales" to be worth spending time you figure out how to do it.

    It's much like how I shouldn't have to set the time on the gps to the local time. We have timezone databases. We have maps which describe the boundaries of a time zone and we have the current location. That gives you all you need to set the time on a gps to the local time.

    Or wouldn't it be nice if the speed warning on gps's took into account school zone and hours of operation.

    Or wouldn't it be nice if time of day turn restrictions could be taken into account when route planning.

    The latter two really need the first to be implemented to be fully automated.

  21. Re:There are 5 trillion /56 blocks on IPv6 Achieves 50% Reach On Major US Carriers (worldipv6launch.org) · · Score: 1

    And the company continues to use that AS with IPv6. AS's are independent of IPv4 and IPv6.

    Your company should just request a /48 per site from the RIR's. You already qualify for IPv4 so you qualify for IPv6. The cost is max(IPv4 cost, IPv6 cost).

  22. Re:In before... on IPv6 Achieves 50% Reach On Major US Carriers (worldipv6launch.org) · · Score: 1

    Actually RFC 6269 dis-endorses NAT. RFC 6269 provides the least worst form for those that irrationally just have to have NAT.

    For reasons discussed in [RFC2993] and Section 5, the IETF does not
    recommend the use of Network Address Translation technology for IPv6.
    Where translation is implemented, however, this specification
    provides a mechanism that has fewer architectural problems than
    merely implementing a traditional stateful Network Address Translator
    in an IPv6 environment. It also provides a useful alternative to the
    complexities and costs imposed by multihoming using provider-
    independent addressing and the routing and network management issues
    of overlaid ISP address space. Some problems remain, however. The
    reader should consider the alternatives suggested in [RFC4864] and
    the considerations of [RFC5902] for improved approaches.

  23. Re:Towns/Cities are to blame on Google Fiber Is Changing Its Strategy as Costs Grow (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    When you hire a machine you pay for:

    * Buying the machine and the truck needed to get it to the job site
    * Keeping the machine and truck maintained
    * Insurance of all types: liability, WC, on the equipment and truck, etc
    * Taxes (payroll / business / etc.) for the hire company
    * Accounting / bookkeeping services to take care of the above
    * Rent or mortgage for an office / shop to house all of the above
    * (Finally) a profit margin for the hire company

    The only difference is the labour costs.

  24. Re:They disrupeed our plans! We want blood! on Reddit Tells Label It Won't Cough Up IP Address of Prerelease Music Pirate (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Even with IPv6 it doesn't identify a person. Modern stacks use short lived addresses, by default, for outgoing connections. All you get from IPv6 is a household the same as with IPv4.

    IPv6 allows you to be able to uniquely address every machine. It doesn't require that every machine be reachable. It doesn't require that every machine uses there same address forever.

    And by the way IPv6 is here. There is no need to wait.

  25. Re:Implementation was good though on Internal 'Set Of Blunders' Crashed Australia's Census Site (cso.com.au) · · Score: 1

    No the form does not record her contact information. The only contact information was mine.

    The relationship information however is not collectable unless you enter the people in the household in specific orders. i.e. the form was poorly defined as there were no instructions as far as I could see about entering people in specific orders.